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@_MaxQ_ it’s funny that now even New Glenn has flown more than SLS

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@elonmusk this video goes so hard. go SpaceX!

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@dpoddolphinpro yea let’s blow up the roof on purpose

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@HVACSEO this mailer goes directly to the garbage btw

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@wispem_wantex this thread is littered with people who shouldn’t leave home without their LLM

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@mattjoans im sorry for your loss

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@peterrhague i’ve heard this moon mission places humans the farthest ever away from earth - do you have a similar drawing for the max distance flown by the Apollo missions? would be a great additional piece of context to provide.

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@DJSnM this has to be some form of satire, right?

[Wes Winder @weswinder]

anybody saying you don’t need to look at code anymore is wrong

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Do people realize how big a million lines is? I have seen teams take years to build giant SaaS solutions that barely come close to 1,000,000 lines. What are they building over there at OpenAI? It's probably a glorified ToDo app, or 95% node_modules.

https://t.co/ZkqJpOgg13

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@RMHildebrandt No-code but open source? How does that work?

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@samlambert Way overpriced

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if you get frustrated by llms leaving out critical information needed to accomplish your task, just remember Margin Call, and you’ll be fine.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our intern just asked me why we don't use Kubernetes.

I said because we don't need Kubernetes.

He said everyone uses Kubernetes.

I said everyone TALKS about using Kubernetes. Most companies are running Docker containers on three servers and calling it a day.

We have 40 employees. Our entire infrastructure runs on AWS with auto-scaling groups. It works fine.

Kubernetes is designed for companies running thousands of services across hundreds of servers. We have twelve services.

But he read that Kubernetes is "industry standard" so now he thinks we're behind.

This is what happens when people learn from tech Twitter instead of actual experience.

They think every company is Google-scale and needs Google-scale solutions.

We don't need Kubernetes. We need our MySQL database to stop running out of connections because someone wrote a query that doesn't close properly.

But that's not exciting. Nobody writes blog posts about "I fixed a connection leak."

They write about "How we migrated to Kubernetes and saved millions" even though the migration cost more than they saved.

I told the intern he should learn why tools exist before learning the tools themselves.

He looked disappointed. He wanted to put Kubernetes on his resume.

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I've observed a large percentage of people that read The Phoenix Project come away thinking they're either Brent or Bill.

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@jayair either engineers are taking a paycut or people are expected to produce more, or both

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@thdxr 💯

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“We’re not automating programming, we’re erasing it from existence”

If you’re a software developer and that statement doesn’t strongly resonate with you, your days are numbered and you don’t even realize it.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.

Not evolves. Dies.

By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution.

Musk: “You don’t even bother doing coding.”

Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn’t speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone.

Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen.

Musk: “Imagination-to-software.”

Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly.

We’re not automating programming. We’re erasing it from existence.

The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero.

You don’t build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes.

Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete.

Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn’t skill, resources, or time. It’s whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.

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If you were a horse breeder, stable owner,
blacksmith, horse carriage manufacturer, feed supplier, urban manure collector,
or a saddlemaker, your job was replaced by the automobile and the automobile industry over the course of 10-20 years.

If you’re afraid “AI” will take your job, figure out how to use it.

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Working through an upgrade of ~10 nodejs applications from v16.x to v24.x. Definitely a daunting task and I wish it hadn't been put off for so long. The big players here so far have been node-sass, webpack, and babel.